There are only four members in the London-origin English-Irish boy band for pop music One Direction namely: Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson, while Zayn Malik was a member until he declared his exit from the band on March 25 of 2015, he is from England.

On September 13, 1993, Niall James Horan was born in County Westmeath, Mullingar, Ireland. He was mainly lifted up together with his father, after some years of alternately staying with each parent in diverse towns pursuing his parents’ separation when he was still 5 years old. He and his sibling stayed between their parents for few years until finally deciding to stay in Mullingar with their daddy. He studied in a boys’ Christian Brothers school, the Coláiste Mhuire. He was a school’s choir that is presenting in seasonal Christmas events.

Harry Edward Styles is from Cheshire, the town of Holmes Chapel, England and born February 1, 1994. He studied in a state comprehensive school at the Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School. Born by Anne Cox and Des Styles, and has a sibling, his older sister Gemma. He was only seven when their parents separated and his mother later remarried. Right after the divorce, Harry, his mother and elder sister moved out into the countryside of Cheshire. At 12, he returned to Holmes Chapel. Prior to partaking in The X Factor, 16-year-old Harry had a part-work in Holmes Chapel at the W. Mandeville Bakery. He was also the head singer for the White Eskimo band.

Liam Payne was born on August 29, 1993 and he is from West Midlands, Wolverhampton, England. Born to Geoff and Karen Payne having two older sisters namely Nicola and Ruth, and until age 4, Payne had usual tests performed in the hospital as physicians witness one of his kidney was dysfunctional and blemishing. Just in order to ease the pain he going through, a total of 32 injections in the morning and evening in his arm. As an adolescent, Payne was heavily engaged in sports. He was bullied in school so he took up boxing lessons at age 12.

Louis William Tomlinson, was born with a real name of Louis Troy Austin on December 24, 1991. He is from South Yorkshire, Doncaster, England. He is the son of Johannah and Troy Austin but when his parents split up when he was still young, he took the name of Mark Tomlinson, his stepfather. He has a six younger half-sisters and a younger half-brother, two of them had roles as babies in the Fat Friends TV series, on which he emerge as an extra.

Zayn Malik was born January 12, 1993 and he is from West Yorkshire, Bradford, England. His father, Yaser Malik is a vBritish Pakistani, while his mother Tricia Malik is having a descent of Irish and English. He has two younger sisters, Waliyha and Safaa and an older sister Doniya. He matured in East Bowling, and became a student in Lower Fields Primary School, and he also went in one state comprehensive school at Tong High School. Because of his mixed heritage, Malik did not match in his first two schools.